Dr. Marcela Vásquez-León is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Anthropology; Associate Research Anthropologist at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology; and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research...[more information]

Dr. Abraham Acosta is Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He came to the University of Arizona from the University of Michigan where he received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (2007). Prof. Acosta's areas of interest include...[more information]

Antonio José Bacelar da Silva earned his Ph.D. in Linguistic and Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona in December 2012. He also holds an MA in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Before joining the Center for Latin America Studies at the...[more information]

I was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated with my immediate family to the U.S. in 1961, at the age of 10. I attended primary and secondary parochial schools in Dallas, Texas and spent my undergraduate years at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. I spent my senior year in Peru, taking a few...[more information]

Honors Interdisciplinary Faculty member Dr. Victor Braitberg is an Assistant Professor whose training is in Sociocultural Anthropology. He directs the Honors College program with The...[more information]

Susan Brewer-Osorio is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the relationship between drug policy, illicit markets, and contentious politics in Andean South America. Susan completed her PhD at the University of Virginia in 2014,...[more information]

Anne Browning-Aiken holds a Ph.D. degree in cultural anthropology with an emphasis on Latin America from The University of Arizona (UA), a master’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. from Northwestern University. She also has additional training...[more information]

Tracy Carroll, PT, MPH, is a practicing physical therapist in Tucson, AZ. She is clinical faculty for the Department of Family and Community Medicine and a clinical preceptor at the University of Arizona's Refugee Clinic. Tracy coordinates and teaches the annual 3-week International Health...[more information]

Dr. Ana Maria Carvalho is an Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish. She completed her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1998, with a specialization in sociolinguistics. She teaches language and linguistics and directs the Portuguese Language...[more information]

My research investigates intersections of indigenous politics, land rights, socio-environmental (in)justice, and law in the context of development and Latin America, with a focus on Paraguay. As a critical human geographer trained in political ecology, critical development studies and cultural...[more information]